18 July 2007

A couple of quotes on the "Judgment of God"

The Militant Pacifist shares a couple of quotes on the "judgment of God."

1st, from Charlie Sexton's (an incredible Texas musician - songwriter, guitarist and co-frontman for the Arcangels, guitarist for Bob Dylan's band ['97-'04], and producer and contributor for a bunch of great albums - yeah folks, it's rock-n-roll) 2005 album Cruel and Gentle Things, and the song "Gospel:"

"It is basic to all Christian ethics that the final judgment upon conduct is the judgment of God. All Christians would agree with that. Not the judgment of contemporaries, not our own judgment, not even the judgment of history so-called, but the judgment of God is that with which we finally have to deal. If we deny that, we have to say that in the end only results matter, and motives do not. That is what Marxists say, and they are logical about it. They know that it means throwing overboard the whole Christian moral tradition. But it is common, I think, to all Christians that the final judgment, and therefore the judgment with which we have to reckon, is the judgment of God."

The Militant Pacifist says, "Amen, and Rock-on" - or - should I say, "Rock-on, and Amen!"

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

—Mark Twain

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you!"

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

"Man is obviously made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought."

Blaise Pascal, Pensees 146

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

- Francisco D’Ancona (Ayn Rand) Atlas Shrugged

“Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular- but one must take it simply because it is right.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage."

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Chapter 2

"There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns."